What were the best and worst rooms at RMAF 2009?

I thought that as usual, most of the cost no object rooms with full range speakers, YG acoustics, Focal, were as usual, stymied by room problems, as others have described. The only exception was the Gamut room, which I liked a lot.
I agree with many remarks about other rooms:

TW Accustic Tron was excellent
Daedalus Da-Rama/Modwright were very nice
LSA, which nowone has mentioned, was very good for a low cost set up
The contrast with the Wilson Sassha'a and Duette was interesting. I did'nt like the former at all, they seemed to have a hard edge to them, but the smaller speakers were one of the nicest set ups I heard.
Moscode Von Scheikert were very good indeed. I understand there mmay be a synergy between them.

I second (or third) the Esoteric room. . . I was particularly taken by comparing on X-01 D2 playback of redbook tracks as PCM, and then repeating listening with conversion to DSD. . . very convincing to my ears and my musical prefs. G.

Having been there in the 1970's, let me tell you there were a lot more poor sounding speakers then than now.
Some of todays cheaper speakers are much better than those from "good old days"
Hey, the Japanese were buying and listening to 1960 Altecs and not buying Japanese 1970's speakers.

The last thing I would ever contemplate is that good old 70's sound.
Now what coast did you prefer, East or West?

The speakers were so coloured that East coast were for light jazz, folk, classical(AR,)and the West coast rocked hard to JBL.

I think we have come a long ways .

What amps were driving the Ref 3A Grand Veena?

Worst sound was Tocaro speakers driven by EMM electronics. The speaker is a full range, single driver design from Germany priced at about $8,000. The sound was dreadful, tinny, and annoying.

The Ref 3A Grand Vs were driven by 30 wpc Belles amps and sounded very nice.